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  1. In US history, a secret Irish coalminers'
  2. organization in the 1870s that staged strikes
  3. and used violence against coal-company
  4. officials and property in the anthracite
  5. fields of Pennsylvania, prefiguring a long
  6. period of turbulence in industrial relations.
  7. The movement was infiltrated by Pinkerton
  8. agents (detectives), and in 1876 trials led
  9. to convictions and executions.
  10.